The Shadow Sister: The Seven Sisters, Book 3

When their father dies, Star D'Aplièse and her six sisters, all adopted by him from the four corners of the world, are left with few clues to their heritage. But Star - the most enigmatic of the sisters - is hesitant to step out of the safety of the close relationship she shares with her sister CeCe. In desperation, she decides to follow her first clue, which leads her to an antiquarian bookshop in London, and the start of a whole new world....

The Olive Tree

It has been 24 years since a young Helena spent a magical holiday in Cyprus, where she fell in love for the first time. When the now crumbling house, Pandora, is left to her by her godfather, she returns to spend the summer there with her family. At the difficult age of 13, her son, Alex, is torn between protecting his mother and learning the truth about his real father. Both Helena and Alex know that life will never be the same once Pandora's secrets have been revealed.

The Angel Tree

Thirty years have passed since Greta Marchmont left the Marchmont Hall. Now she finally returns, with amnesia and no memory of her past. But a walk through the wintry landscape leads to a disturbing discovery: she comes across a grave in the forest, and the weathered inscription on the cross tells her that her own son is buried here. Greta begins to search for the woman she once was, and to do so she must summon all of her courage....

Hothouse Flower

As a child, Julia Forrester spent many idyllic hours in the hothouse of Wharton Park estate, where her grandfather tended the exotic flowers. So when a family tragedy strikes, Julia returns to the tranquility of Wharton Park and its hothouse. Recently inherited by charismatic Kit Crawford, the estate is undergoing renovation. This leads to the discovery of an old diary, prompting the pair to seek out Julia's grandmother to learn the truth behind a love affair that almost destroyed Wharton Park.

The Italian Girl

Rosanna Menici is just a girl when she meets Roberto Rossini, the man who will change her life. In the years to come, their destinies are bound together by their extraordinary talents as opera singers and by their enduring but obsessive love for each other - a love that will ultimately affect the lives of those closest to them. For, as Rosanna slowly discovers, their unison is haunted by irreversible events from the past.

The Midnight Rose

In the heyday of the British Raj, Anahita becomes Princess Indira’s official companion, and accompanies her to England just before the outbreak of the Great War. There, she meets the young Donald Astbury – reluctant heir to a magnificent, estate – and his scheming mother. Eighty years later, Rebecca Bradley, a young American film star, has the world at her feet. Her latest role, playing a 1920s debutante, takes her to the now-crumbling Astbury Hall…

The Girl on the Cliff

Troubled by recent loss, Grania Ryan has returned to Ireland and the arms of her loving family. It is here, on a cliff edge, that she first meets a young girl, Aurora. Strangely drawn to Aurora, Grania discovers that their families are deeply entwined. From a bittersweet romance in wartime London to a troubled relationship in contemporary New York, the Ryans and the Lisles have been entangled for a century.

The Light Behind the Window

THE PRESENT - After her mother’s death, Emilie de la Martiniéres finds herself the sole inheritor of a chateau in the south of France. There she discovers an old notebook which leads her along a journey to unravel the tragic love story of the mysterious Sophia. THE PAST (1943). Constance Carruthers, arrives in occupied Paris at the height of conflict. There she stumbles into the heart of a wealthy family and is drawn into a web of deception, the repercussions of which will affect generations to come.

Florence Grace

Florrie Buckley is an orphan living on the wind-blasted moors of Cornwall. It's a hard existence, but Florrie is content; she runs wild in the mysterious landscape. She thinks her destiny is set in stone. But when Florrie is 14, she inherits a never-imagined secret. She is related to a wealthy and notorious London family: the Graces.

Spinning the Moon

In the Shadow of the Moon: When Laura Truitt first sees the dilapidated plantation house, she's overcome by a sense of familiarity. Inside, the owner claims to have been waiting for years and offers an old photograph of a woman with Laura's face. Soon afterward, when a lunar eclipse inexplicably thrusts Laura back in time to Civil War Georgia, she finds herself fighting not just for her heart but for her very survival.

Tuscan Rose

A mysterious stranger known as 'The Wolf' leaves an infant with the sisters of Santo Spirito. A tiny silver key hidden in her wrappings is the only clue to the child's identity and so begins a story as intriguing and beautiful as the city of Florence itself. Belinda Alexandra's new novel, Tuscan Rose, is set in Italy during the time of Mussolini. This richly woven tale of passion, love, longing, witchcraft and magic promises to be everything her readers love and more.

Amy Snow: A Novel

It is 1831 when eight-year-old Aurelia Vennaway finds a naked baby girl abandoned in the snow on the grounds of her aristocratic family's magnificent mansion. Her parents are horrified that she has brought a bastard foundling into the house, but Aurelia convinces them to keep the baby, whom she names Amy Snow. Amy is brought up as a second-class citizen, but she and Aurelia are as close as sisters. When Aurelia dies at the age of 23, she leaves Amy 10 pounds. But Aurelia also left her much more.

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Duet

From the London pop scene, to the opera stages of Europe; from a tiny Greek island, to a stifling manor house full of secrets and deceptions; from the sun-drenched Queensland coast, to the silent outback; Angela and Ellie are two women both looking for something. One in search of her identity and her memory; the other in search of the love that she had and lost; theirs is a duet whose last note will not be sung until the heart-stopping climax, when a shadow from the past returns to claim them both.

Wildflower Hill

In 1920s Glasgow, Beattie Blaxland falls pregnant to her married lover Henry just before her nineteenth birthday. Abandoned by her family, Beattie and Henry set sail for a new life in Australia. In 2009, London, prima ballerina Lydia Blaxland-Hunter is also discovering that life can also have its ups and downs. Unable to dance again after a fall, Lydia returns home to Australia to recuperate.

Letters to the Lost

Late on a frozen February evening, a young woman is running through the streets of London. Having fled from her abusive boyfriend and with nowhere to go, Jess stumbles onto a forgotten lane where a small, clearly unlived-in old house offers her best chance of shelter for the night. The next morning a mysterious letter arrives - and when she can't help but open it, she finds herself drawn inexorably into the story of two lovers from another time.

The Milliner's Secret

June 1940. As Paris, the City of Light, approaches its darkest hour, a young woman treads the line between survival and collaboration. Londoner Cora Masson has reinvented herself as Coralie de Lirac, using a false claim to aristocratic birth to launch herself as a fashionable milliner. When the Nazis invade, the influence of a high-ranking lover protects her business. But the cruel demands of war - and of love - cannot be kept at bay forever.

Dust of the Land

There was only one way she could guarantee her future ... and she knew that she would take it. Bella Tucker has come a long way. Born illegitimate and banished to the London slums by her vindictive stepmother, at six Bella is rescued by her grandfather and brought up as a member of the aristocratic Richmond family. Her future seems assured when she falls passionately in love with Charles Hardy, heir to the wealthy Hardy estate – until her grandfather’s death changes everything...

Flight Patterns

Georgia Chambers has spent her life sifting through other people's pasts while trying to forget her own. But then her work as an expert on fine china - especially Limoges - requires her to return to the one place she swore she'd never revisit. It's been 13 years since Georgia left her family home on the coast of Florida, and nothing much has changed except that there are fewer oysters and more tourists.

Southern Ruby

Forbidden love. Family secrets. A twist of fate. The stunning new generational saga from Belinda Alexandra, best-selling author of Tuscan Rose and White Gardenia. In New Orleans - the city of genteel old houses covered in Spanish moss, of seductive nightlife, of Creole, voodoo and jazz - two women separated by time and tragedy will find each other at last.

White Gardenia

In the tradition of Paullina Simons comes an unforgettable story of a mother and daughter from a remarkable new writer. Beginning in a small village under Japanese occupation on the Chinese-Russian border in the final days of World War II, White Gardenia tells the story of a Russian mother and daughter separated by war.

Silver Wattle

In fear for their lives after the sudden death of their mother, Adéla and Klára must flee Prague to find refuge with their uncle in Australia. Later, Adéla becomes a film director at a time when the local industry is starting to feel the competition from Hollywood. But even while success is imminent, the issues of family and an impossible love are never far away.

New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline's world is forever changed when Hitler's army invades Poland in September 1939 - and then sets its sights on France. An ocean away from Caroline, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, senses her carefree youth disappearing as she is drawn deeper into her role as courier for the underground resistance movement.

It's 1945: When the critically wounded Captain Cooper Ravenal is brought to a private hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side, young Dr. Kate Schuyler is drawn into a complex mystery that connects three generations of women in her family to a single extraordinary room in a Gilded Age mansion. Who is the woman in Captain Ravenel's portrait miniature who looks so much like Kate? And why is she wearing the ruby pendant handed down to Kate by her mother?

Golden Earrings

Catalina, grand-daughter of Spanish refugees, is a disciplined student with the School of the Paris Opera Ballet. Little gets inthe way of her career until the visit of an otherworldly being, who leaves her a mysterious pair of golden earrings. Given a quest, Catalina realises she must explore her own Spanish heritage and makes the connection between the visitor and ‘La Rusa’, a young Andalusian flamenco star. La Rusa died in exile in Paris in 1952, her death ruled as suicide. But as Catalina begins to discover, there were those in the community, who had good reason for wanting La Rusa dead.

Publisher's Summary

A talented sailor, Ally is about to compete in one of the world's most challenging yacht races when she hears the news of her adoptive father's sudden death.

In the aftermath of the harrowing events that follow, Ally pursues the clues her father left her to the icy beauty of Norway. There, she begins to discover how her story is inextricably bound to that of a young unknown singer, Anna Landvik, who lived there over 100 years before.

I really liked the storyline, but I did not enjoy the narration. I'm not found of entire books read in faux accents, and I cringed every time the narrator pronunced a Norwegian word! (And there are a lot of them, and not even hard ones). I guess that a non-Norwegian listener won't find this as bothering as me, but this ruined a lot of the listening experience for me, at least in the first part of the book. Aside from this, it was interesting to listen to a book set in Norway.

I read the first book in this series "The Seven Sisters" and wanted to continue with the story of the next sister.... BUT I haven't even finished the book yet, and I CANNOT STAND the narrator!!! I've been trying to figure out which one is the main narrator, and went online to each of their websites and listened to their voices, so I'm pretty sure the narrator who does the girls' voices is Noreen Leighton, but not positive. Anyway, she is simply awful! She tries to do the sisters' French accents, but narrates with a clipped, German-like cadence. It's like hearing fingernails on a blackboard! I know the story will be good as the first book had a very good story, but WHY did either Audible or the author pick this completely terrible narrator??? It's so difficult to listen to her on Audible! I'm not sure what voice(s) the other narrator is doing - I haven't heard yet, I don't think. Unless, Rachel Lincoln is the girls' voices and Noreen Leighton is the boys. Not sure, but whoever is doing what, I cannot STAND listening to the voices! Please don't have them do ANY other books, especially from this series. I won't be able to download them from Audible, but will have to buy the book and read it for myself - which I don't want to do as I do like to listen as I'm driving. Just don't use these narrators anymore!! UGH!

As others have said - the pronunciation of Norwegian words was truly horrible. They weren't even hard words in Norwegian. Was it not possible to find someone who speaks Norwegian to do the narration? Or at least talk to the people doing the narration and coach them? It was very distracting and really took away from the story for me. Which is sad because I was really looking forward to a book that took place partially in Norway.

I cannot understand what made me think I would like this book.The moment a harlequin trope of a studly love interest entered the scene I knew I was doomed. I couldn't listen much beyond that point. I guess the performance was okay but also rather breathy and heavy-handed for my taste. I guess if you've got a love of sailing and enjoy romance novels this will be your thing. I'm not passionate about either.

This is the first review that I have written. I have listened to well over 100 audiobooks and this one stood out because I found the narration to be well below the quality that I have come to expect. The phrasing was done so poorly that I could hardly believe it and at times actually got me confused---pauses in the middle of a phrase between subject and predicate, etc. I was actually talking to myself in my disbelief and irritation. I kept listening because I couldn't believe that Audible would let this get by, hoping that it would improve and then I got sufficiently caught up in the story to tough it out.

Also the 2nd narrator's accent was "off" and sounded odd, more like a speech impediment

Any additional comments?

I don't care if you post this or feel free to paraphrase because I know it is harsh and likely insulting--I just want you to know how disappointed in Audible I am. I am not exaggerating. This was 4th grade level reading. This was not a performance. I should have just stopped listening but the story was just interesting enough to keep me hopeful.

Although the story is good the narration is atrocious. A false mostly German (& not French) accent that wavers between various modifications sometimes slipping into London accents. So irritating that I have to switch to a paper version of this book as I can't take listening to it anymore

I have listened to several of Lucinda Riley's books and enjoyed them very much. While I enjoyed the story in The Storm Sister, I do question the artistic licence the author gives herself with regards to the main character's implied blood ties to a famous historic character. I was not really impressed with the narration. I thought that the French accent was unnecessary and didn't really add to the story, rather the opposite in fact. And the Norwegian part was a disaster! I am a native Norwegian, and the pronunciation of the Norwegian words like Mor (mother), Far (father), Kjære (dear) and location names made me cringe every time. The Norwegian language has 3 letters that don't exist in English - æ, ø, å. The narrator got them frequently confused, and repeatedly used the sounds in words that don't even have those sounds. I realise that Norwegian isn't a widely spoken language, but this doesn't justify not doing your research and making sure that words are pronounced correctly.

3 of 3 people found this review helpful

Bridget Nodder

NI

12/14/15

Overall

Performance

Story

"confusing"

Would you try another book written by Lucinda Riley or narrated by Noreen Leighton and Rachel Lincoln ?

Ive read all of Lucindas previous books, mainly as audio books - and absolutely loved them

If you’ve listened to books by Lucinda Riley before, how does this one compare?

only a third of the way through at this stage, so possibly I shouldn't be commenting - but disappointed so far; like one of the previous reviewers, couldn't understand why Ali has a French accent - surely she was brought up with her 5 sisters, so why would she speak like that. that confused me and put me off fro the outset. now into the Norwegian section and hence the title 'confused' - thought I was reading a different book! will plunder on through it although its very very long; I also wonder about the year long gap in between each book in the series - is it too long? will I have lost interest by then?? only time will tell

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Lorna

1/19/16

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Performance

Story

"A slow start but improved as story progressed

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this is not a mans type of story but historicallydetails were interesting in many ways

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

J

12/6/15

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Performance

Story

"A story that covers everything...."

I loved this audiobook,it is well read with plenty of my favourite elements, music, travel, family mysteries and some predictability. I have read and enjoyed the first part if this series and the story of the second sister doesn't disappoint, I eagerly await the next installment. The intrigue of the plot is that hints are dropped forming questions that presumably will be revealed over the series. I thoroughly recommend this book. x

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Dawn

12/4/15

Overall

Performance

Story

"Enjoyable read, couldn't put it down"

Would you listen to The Storm Sister again? Why?

Yes, probably missed bits when I got distracted.

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Storm Sister?

When she found she could still play the flute well

Which scene did you most enjoy?

When Ally produced the music which her father had written.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Obviously the end when the orchestra played.

Any additional comments?

Enjoyed the book from start to finish.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Amazon Customer

12/1/15

Overall

Performance

Story

"The storm sister by lucinda Riley"

Would you consider the audio edition of The Storm Sister to be better than the print version?

I haven,t read the print version of this book. The attraction followed listening to the audio of the first book - The Seven Sisters which i found intreaging.

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Storm Sister?

There is many memorable moment in the storm sister - pa Salt dying, Allis meeting Theo and loosing him. Her strength. Taking up a new life changing coarse. The misery behind her adoption.

Have you listened to any of Noreen Leighton and Rachel Lincoln ’s other performances? How does this one compare?

This is the first time (as far as I am aware) I have listed too Noreen and Rachel narrating a story. They have me enthralled.

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

From the stars and back again., across the seven seas, it's music to my ears

Any additional comments?

The book has me second guessing. Who was Pa Salt really? Where is the seventh sister. Already waiting in anticipation for the next book.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Mrs. Nicola Jemphrey

Northern Ireland

11/23/15

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Performance

Story

"Compulsive but preposterous story"

As in Maia's Story Lucinda Riley has once again taken the audacious step of linking the particular sister's story to actual historical characters, more so in this book. As with all Lucinda Riley's books most of the ends are tied up too neatly and parts of the plot are quite predictable but the story is still enjoyable. What I didn't like was Ally speaking throughout in a French accent of the "I vill say zis only vonce " variety. It would have been far better narrated in the actor's normal accent, as Anna's section was - presumably a Norwegian English accent was just too difficult?

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Cliente Amazon

11/27/16

Overall

Performance

Story

"Silly story about lightweight glossy people"

What would have made The Storm Sister better?

Narration more in keeping with the character; the poor french accent is unnecessary and makes the character sound vacuous and pathetic

What could Lucinda Riley have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Created people with depth and character

Who might you have cast as narrator instead of Noreen Leighton and Rachel Lincoln ?

Juliet Stevenson

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Irritation and disappointment

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

Abbey

9/25/16

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"recommended easy listening"

Enjoyed thus second book of the series. Well read and addictive bedtime/travel listening. I would highly recommend it.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

Agnieszka Bania

8/3/16

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Performance

Story

"disappointing"

I love lucinda's books but this was my least favourite and made worse by hideous German accents when in Norway making it hard to get into - I believe it'd be better read but I don't recommend listening to it.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

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